Contents
List of illustrations
List of tasks
List of contributors
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 Beyond your initial teacher education: staying in teaching
Kate Reynolds
Culture and context; building relationships; building time for yourself; social media; subject associations; inspections
Chapter 2 Managing constant change
Lizana Oberholzer
Why change; managing and responding to change; strategies for implementing change
Chapter 3 Mentoring and being mentored
Trevor Wright
Some mentoring challenges; Competence, apprenticeship and reflection; The mentoring relationship
Chapter 4 Thriving in your subject department
Steve Puttick and Nick Gee
What makes a subject department; Organiation; Culture; Psychological safety.
Chapter 5 Working with teaching assistants and other adults in the classroom to support subject teaching
Fiona Hall and Maxine Pountney
Defining roles; Qualifications, Training experiences; Deployment, preparedness and practice; Classroom leadership and realtionships with other adults.
Chapter 6 Role of the form tutor
Alexandra Titchmarsh
Grouping pupils for pastoral care; The role of a form tutor; What does a form tutor do?; Preparation and organisation for, and running of, your form time; attributes and skills of a good form tutor
Chapter 7 Every teacher is a teacher of English
Paul Gardner
Text types; expectations at KS2; describing language; oral language; reading
Chapter 8 Every student counts: learning mathematics across the curriculum
Jennie Golding, Rosalyn Hyde and Alison Clark-Wilson
Nature of mathematics; curriculum; conceptions and misconceptions; representing mathematics; concrete – visual – abstract pedagogy; digital technologies; language for mathematics
Chapter 9 Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE)
Natasha Bye-Brookes
Defining PSHE education; Programme of Study; Delivering PSHE education; Planning for PSHE education.
Chapter 10 Becoming an inclusive educator: developing your practice as a mainstream teacher of pupils with SEND
Mark Pulsford and Sana Rizvi
Building your knowledge base; Development of SEND in the UK; Definitions and areas of SEND; Models of disability; Understanding self and others; Inclusive practice
Chapter 11 Working to improve classroom climate and pupil behaviour
Terry Haydn
Learner behaviour; Classroom climate; Characteristics of teachers with excellence in behaviour management
Chapter 12 Understanding learners’ primary experiences and transition
Brian Matthews and Lyn Matthews
Fundamentals of Primary Education; Transition; Teaching year 7; Implications for teaching
Chapter 13 Learning beyond the classroom
Mark Chidler and Elizabeth Plummer
Defining learning beyond the classroom; LBtC and the curriculum; LBtC and developing everyday classroom practice; Museums to support teaching and learning; Planning for LBtC; Professional Development
Chapter 14 Improving pupil progress through quality questioning and talk
Nikki Booth
Using formative assessment to enhance the quality of teacher-learner talk; Taxonomies for higher-level thinking and talking: Bloom’s and SOLO; Effective questioning;
Chapter 15 Assessment, homework and marking
Helen Cassady and Barry Harwood
Accountability measures; Progress 8; Assessment 8; Marking; Homework
Chapter 16 Making the curriculum your own
Chris Shelton and Julia O’Kelly
Understanding the school curriculum; How a subject curriculum is made; Designing the curriculum; The curriculum and your professional autonomy
Chapter 17 Digital technologies: pedagogies and classroom practice
Andrew Csizmadia and Jon Audain
Digital technologies; Digital pedagogies; ICT competence framework; Flipped learning; Gamification; Professional Learning.
Chapter 18 Leadership and management
Rachel Peckover
School structures; Types of Leadership; Preparing for leadership: Competencies; Leadership development
Chapter 19 Researching your teaching
Eira Wyn Patterson
Developing your research design; Developing questions; Literature review; Research methodology; research methods and tools; ethics; data analysis
Chapter 20 Looking after yourself and your professional development
Derek Boyle
Surviving; Wellbeing and the mentoring relationship; Self-realisation to actualisation; support networks; recognising your own indicators; coping strategies; mentoring moving to coaching; onwards and upwards
Appendix 1 Glossary of terms
Appendix 2 Subject associations and teaching councils
Appendix 3 Useful websites
